Can you run System 7 on your new Mac? You will believe you can when you visit this well done online simulation of a Performa 6116 by Andrea Grell-Becker, who has also created a site that we have mentioned in the past - Remember eWorld.

Give it a spin:
My Old Macintosh - A System 7 Simulation

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The December 19-31 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "ScriptX, So Long Taligent, Apple Buys NeXT".

December 19-31: ScriptX, So Long Taligent, Apple Buys NeXT

This article by Agam Shah at Macworld.com begins:
"An Apple II PC being sold by Commodore International in 1982? It came very close to happening, but luckily for Apple, Commodore rejected the idea, instead going with its revolutionary Commodore 64.
Apple was one of the companies that approached influential Commodore to sell PCs, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said during an energetic panel discussion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64 PC, which took place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on Monday evening."

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Wozniak, Others Reminisce About the PC Wonder Years

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The December 12-18 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Apple Goes Public, 1984 Airs".

December 12-18: Apple Goes Public, 1984 Airs

From the Byte Magazine archives, originally published in September, 1995, this list includes the Apple II, the Macintosh, the Macintosh II and the Power Macintosh. It begins:
"From soldering irons to SparcStations, from MITS to Macintosh, personal computers have evolved from do-it-yourself kits for electronics hobbyists into machines that practically leap out of the box and set themselves up. What enabled them to get from there to here? Innovation and determination. Here are the top 20 systems that made that rapid evolution possible."

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Byte Magazine: Top 20 Small Systems

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The December 1-11 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Byte Opens, Star Trek Demo, NeXT vs. Be".

December 1-11: Byte Opens, Star Trek Demo, NeXT vs. Be